music festival

It's been a month since my last Sunday Best post, and all I can say is that a lot has changed! Some good, some bad, but overall? Really great. Anyways, here's a small collection of happenings and things of note from the last little while I'd like to share! Man lets mom set up Tinder date. A light, unoffending piece from GQ writer Clay Skipper, on what happened when he let his mother swipe right for him. A choice excerpt below. I wondered if nowadays, with an endless stream of people to be right-swiped into you[...]

I had been anxiously waiting for the day passes went on sale, having booked my flights and accommodations well ahead of time. I had managed to get relatively inexpensive flights (~$380 round-trip) during a WestJet seat sale in December. Although I could have waited to see if they dropped any lower, I didn't want to risk it since I'd heard that prices can jump in January (Google Flights says the best deal is about $460 as of publishing time). As for accommodations, we were already going through the last picks for places tha[...]

After rumours began dropping earlier in the week, the Coachella line-up was finally announced on Monday, January 4th. Along with the much-anticipated reunions of both Guns N' Roses and LCD Soundsystem, EDM heavy hitter Calvin Harris was unveiled as a headliner for this year's event. I'm personally most excited to see (in no particular order): Jack U, Guns N’ Roses, Ice Cube, Disclosure, A$AP Rocky, ZHU, RUFUS DU SOL, Vanic, Major Lazer, and Flume. Next best, are: M83, G-Eazy, Purity Ring, Rae Sremmurd, Sam[...]

In 2013, it was about 12:13am local time (in Siem Reap, Cambodia, to be exact) when I received the e-mail that would change my summer. I was winding down with my backpacking partners after a long day of exploring Angkor Wat, when The Yacht Week HR contacted me. I had applied for a hostessing position earlier in the year, but was unable to make the overseas training sessions during my university finals. Now, an internship position had opened up—even better! If I could gain some valuable experience at the same time, why n[...]